Steve Slotow & Kojo Baffoe present The Art of Life Eps 10

The ebb and flow of The Art of Life reflects our lives and our work. This is our 10th episode (although we did have a two-part episode previously) and in it we chat about the 'new' MacBook Air, the Liquid Image EGO, a wi-fi enabled mountable HD action camera to compete with the Go Pro, amongst others, and, finally, I haul out a book. The story of Justin Halpem's Sh*t My Dad Says was one of those that, in the early days, showed the potential that Twitter has. I often wonder whether these types of stories are still possible considering how noisy social media has become. Halpem's follow up More...

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The iPad Made Me Do It

The hype behind Apple and its products somehow passed me by. Even as a lover of music on the go, having spent good money on my first Sony Walkman in the late 80s, the iPod passed me by. I heard the murmurings, saw people starting to walk around with the white headphones, but just wasn't drawn to it. The only times I really took notice of Macs was when I was involved in television production and the editors worked off them. I figured it was designed for them. I eventually got an iPod Touch. Love it. Road trips no longer required a stack of CDs. I don't do much else on it but play music and it...

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